import subprocess from typing import List from multipledispatch import dispatch from pathlib import Path ENCODING = "utf-8" @dispatch() def get_list_short(): """Returns string output of the `xinput --list --short` command encoded as UTF-8""" completed = subprocess.run( ["xinput", "--list", "--short"], capture_output=True ) return completed.stdout.decode(ENCODING) @dispatch(int) def get_list_short(id): """Short List of the id Args: id (int): id registered in xinput Rises: ValueError: in case of id not found in devices """ completed = subprocess.run( ["xinput", "--list", "--short", str(id)], capture_output=True ) if completed.returncode == 0: return completed.stdout.decode(ENCODING) else: ValueError(f"id[{id}] is not registered") def reattach(id, master): """Reattach a device to a master Args: id (str|int): name of the slave or id master (_type_): _description_ TODO: Error handling should be done. BUT, if the master is not a master or id is not valid, xinput will not do anything and nothing bad will happen :) """ completed = subprocess.run( ["xinput", "--reattach", str(id), str(master)], capture_output=True ) return completed.returncode def get_ids() -> List[int]: """returns list of ids registered in xinput""" completed = subprocess.run( ["xinput", "--list", "--id-only"], capture_output=True ) return list(map(int, completed.stdout.decode(ENCODING).split())) def create_master(name: str = "touch"): """Creates master with specified name Args: name (str, optional): name of the master. Defaults to 'touch'. """ completed = subprocess.run(["xinput create-master", name]) return completed.returncode def map_to_output(output, device_id): # TODO pass def get_edid_dev_path(): """returns iterator of pathes of devices with edid devices which has EDID are monitors. """ return Path("/sys/devices").rglob("edid")